Just read an interesting article about TV and movies giving bad expectations for relationships – and causing people to expect more, and want to be single the more they indulge in the romantic televisions and movie fantasies. Of course this makes sense to me, and I am glad to see another author bringing this, and having a recent study to shed some more light on this subject.

Checking stories on yahoo today led me to some news videos and I saw one about “2 men a woman and a baby – a modern family” – so I had to click to see what it was about. They were doing a story about a polyamorous threesome, I think they called a thrupple (trying to put together three and couple I guess). So it was a household with one woman in a relationship with two live in men, and a baby she had with one of the men.

A story found on the New York times says that Kody Brown and his “sister wives” (who also appear in a reality TV series about their polyamorous relationship choices and multi-women family living choice) is / are filing a federal lawsuit to challenge the anti-polygamy law in Utah. The article describes some of the legal maneuvering and arguments that may be made on both sides of the issue.

A recent study finally puts some scientific numbers to show that people who are more beautiful are generally happier than people who look average or are ugly. The numbers in this study combined with another recent study about jobs, and another from a popular dating site show that the hotter girls are often passed up for job opportunities and dating options as well.

So I was lured into this OkCupid thing by a story at lifehacker. It basically said that online dating site OkCupid dot com had established three simple questions to have in common with someone you want to be compatible with. So I read the little story, and came back to it later, doing more research on Ok cupid.

Dating Technology24.01.2011Comments Off on Zoosk study: UK singles comfortable using technology while dating

a recent study commissioned by zoosk! online dating shows that a good percentage of singles in the UK are quite comfortable using technology like text messages, emails, and online dating sites to connect with other singles in the dating scene. Most surprising to me is the percentage of people who said they are quite comfortable sharing some personal information out on the open internet for the world to see.

Sexual Attraction Through Text Messaging

Sending naughty or nude photos seems to be the norm amongst a majority of the women surveyed:

I had read an article a couple weeks ago, but having a hard time finding it today! Oh, did some different search phrases and found it! The article was posted at the San Fransisco Chronicle. I am pretty sure the article was about some guys that got together and filed a lawsuit against the dating site amateur match.

Breaking Up21.11.2010Comments Off on Still dating, we both know the end is near – breaking up is hard to do

So we’ve been dating for a few years and overall things are great. We are getting along, and both happier with each other than we have been in most, if not all of our past relationships. We both know the end is coming soon though, and it made me wonder how hard it must be for couples who know that their dating is coming to end, and when it’s not about one person who screwed up or hates the other. This kind of breaking up may be the hardest to do.

Not sure that this will stick, I myself am not a big fan of the word “chexting” – sounds to me more like serving up cereal than being descriptive of text-cheating. None-the-less, national news stories are talking about chexting, and linking this term to Tiger Woods and Jesse James (the guy that is currently married to Sandra Bullock). I am a big fan of the word sexting, as it is descriptive; texting sex. i am pretty sure that sexting will stay in our vocabulary for years to come.

A study I read about today talks about how many women that are not married feel a lot of stigma and pressure in today’s society in many ways. Some call it a “spinster” syndrome, and I didn’t even know what that was until I looked it up on wikipedia. Whoa, seriously?

I knew there were issues and pressures on occasion in today’s society when it comes to marriage and kids. I have engaged in discussions on social networks about how it is annoying to both men and women when we are single, not married, and have no kids in some situations. It almost feels like total disrespect when people start showing baby pictures at work and we have nothing to add to the conversation.